DNA-Baby prototype NO. 1

Chrystl Rijkeboer creates installation and art objects made of human hair.

For Project kloone4000 (which presents work of artists who are fascinated by images of the future and the possibilities of technology and science), the artists plans to investigate what kind of reactions making sculptures with human hair evokes.

Every hair contains our personal "genetic image." There are many discussions about starting and maintain DNA databases and I wonder if people realize that each hair contains a personal DNA pattern, states the artist.

Through advertisement at the local paper and request at local hairdressers, she will call on people to bring or send her their hair.

She will then craft NDA-Baby prototype NO. 1, spinning the hair collected into strings from which she will crochet a sculpture. This sculpture will be a baby, which will literal be formed by the twined (by spinning) DNA-strand.

The kloone4000 exhibition runs 16 September - 15 October 2005, in Amsterdam.

Via Rhizome.